Chameleon Food Chart

Below are the foods and dietary supplements needed for a pet chameleon.

Chameleon food chart. Changing the color of chocolate. Beautiful vibrant and delicious. The veiled chameleon food pyramid is designed to be a user friendly guide. By providing a well balanced diet you help ensure that your reptile lives a long and healthy life.

Food quantity only feed as many crickets as your chameleon should eat at a time this depends on the age gender and species. The lizard then grinds the meal between its jaws. Once it fastens to prey the tip of the tongue serves as a suction cup pulling the food into the chameleon s mouth. Chameleons in their natural habitat must eat a mixture of meat and veggies to obtain all the nutrients they require for survival.

Some chameleons like the panther chameleon of madagascar regulate their vitamin d3 levels of which their insect diet is a poor source by exposing themselves to sunlight since its uv component increases internal production. Some small species of chameleon can only change color in the brown black range. Crickets left in the cage overnight may bite a sleeping chameleon. This is more than just a dietary preference.

A chameleon s tongue can whip out at a speed reaching 1640 feet per second. Crickets and mealworms are readily available at pet stores and online and are relatively inexpensive. Food size the rule of thumb is to feed insects no wider than the width of your chameleon s head in order to prevent choking. Now you can change the color of chocolate to any other color.

It also depends on a species what colors their skin can become. All chameleons are omnivorous. Insects various insects will be the primary food of a chameleon. The key on the right side describes how many times to feed this food group per a week.

The natural resting color of a chameleon varies with the species. Temperature influences the amount of food eaten. See species specific caresheets for more information about your chameleon. The diagram in the insect section shows how feeder insects should be properly gut loaded for a veiled chameleon.